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I think I selected about 6 months after you, and we were flat out told don't even think of writing the "my spouse is...." on your selection sheet unless that spouse is active duty. That and special needs family member were the only personal issues they would consider. Maybe Marine stucon had a...

With the exception of the war graves at Pearl Harbor, who owns and maintains these ships? Certainly not the Navy. So why the aversion to aircraft ending up in private hands? According to remarks from NMNA director Capt. Rasmussen in the Nov 98 Air and Space, it seems like the overriding...

Nice. Can anyone make out what his list of "things to do before launch" is?

No doubt. I wasn't condemning him, just pointing out that the indignation over publicizing their names and faces may be misplaced, since the story certainly seems to be pitched as a "WTF is wrong with this case".

Has it occurred to you that it was probably the attorney that pushed this story to Fox to stir up support (and donations) for his clients?

Huh? which email contained this? The emails could be construed as academic misconduct, not an outright mustachioed paid conspiracy. This honestly isn't far out of the norm for academic competitiveness.

Amazing how TBS can still suck the fun out of everything it touches.

We have a youtube channel now. http://www.youtube.com/user/OurMarines?blend=2&ob=1

Ah, yes, the Ralph Peters who called Stan Mcchrystal "morally oblivious" for his ROE and thinks counterinsurgency is a croc now claims dressing in Islamic garb and proselytizing makes him an Islamist terrorist and runs out the "Islam is not a religion of peace" line. He explicitly blames the...

Acknowledging consequences is not the same as assigning blame. Bill Clinton's affair eroded the stigma against adultery....or banging interns...or what have you. But he is not to blame for Joe Schmoe cheating on his wife. And it's patently stupid to ignore consequences because you're afraid of...

If our chain of command or national leadership were saying some of the things you'd like them to say, then you'd have a leg to stand on.

Because there is a universal stigma attached to criminal acts, whereas labeling a crime terrorism lends it a perverse legitimacy to some - that rather than a sociopathic aberration it was for some greater purpose, no matter how abhorrent the means. What do you think a young American Muslim...

Politically loaded perhaps, but killing out of revenge, hatred, or ethnic feuding is not terrorism. Terrorism is an explicitly political act to coerce a response, which is why it's still very unclear if the Hood shootings were, since aim appears to have been to kill and not coerce.

Then it's more than just "bad Muslim" and "good Muslim". Let's start there for a change. Many Iraqi Muslims that shot at and likely killed Americans switched sides and joined the Awakening - many are no doubt in the police and army. We may end up doing so with many of the Taliban in...

So when a Muslim commits murder it's automatically terrorism? The guy in upstate New York (who wanted to debunk Muslim stereotypes) who decapitated his wife was a terrorist?

Where is the connection to "Islamofascism"? That he was a Muslim that killed Americans? What is the political aim that this act of presumed terrorism was supposed to support? Hasan didn't leave that clear at all, and the rest is all presumption until he's fit for interrogation. It's pretty...

Yea, but my shade of tan is natural. Link?

First that guy, http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=150160 then this one. What is this, a guido epidemic at Columbia?

Psychological torture? Are you talking about the discussion that he may have burned out as a PTSD doc? Mental health professionals have a pretty high burnout rate, and it's not implausible that it was a contributing factor. How is listing one's self Palestinian "anti-western" (especially on a...

So we should have let Watada and the other deserters go lest they shoot up their unit?

I suppose this is the first time I've thought "thank god my buddy's deployed".

Sunday, it appears. Probably the least bad outcome, he wasn't going to lose the runoff.

Have I been asleep, or were they going to have a runoff?

Can those things take 53's? I'd love to pay her a visit someday.

Weren't some of the same folks here decrying why there wasn't media coverage of the tridents laid on MA2 Monsoor's coffin? Oh, but that's "good" coverage of a funeral and the President paying respects is "bad".

The invasion of Iraq. The Army requested forces and Rumsfeld line by line audited and cut who would deploy. He didn't wait a month to do it either.

This is bordering on epic.

Shit. Hope the crew is safe.

You worked for the Air Force?:icon_wink

No one is seriously discussing ending the attacks - Mayer acknowledges that they're effective and probably our principal tool for disupting Al Qaeda. But there is a spirited debate about whether to pursue a resource-intensive COIN effort or withdraw to an offshore strategy focused solely on...

Jane Mayer has a good article on this in the 26 Oct New Yorker. It's subscription only and I'm iPhone only so I'll be brief. The concern with these drone attacks is that they're conducted by the CIA with little oversight, and the scope of these killings has been broadening. No doubt we're...

Chinhook crash in the West and a midair between a Huey and Cobra in Helmand. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6890357.ece

Hopefully he's still treading water and you're looking for his head/cranial, and not for his back because he's floating facedown in the water. Marines. Having worn a shirt/slacks in my previous life, I know sitting/standing cycles quickly pull enough material up in the back to make a nice...

Paragraphs bro, paragraphs.

Is the airworthiness site restricted to .mil only now? (it wasn't when I got the 57 pubs) I can't log on except at an NMCI computer and I have no way of getting a 50mb NATOPS off an NMCI computer except to burn a cd.

Maybe the PAC moonlighted as a helicopter pilot.

Well it didn't take long.....

And of course, the Soviets/Russians.

Shit, I didn't have much sympathy(some, but not much) for the Pakistani army HQ getting attacked. You reap what you sow.

That was the facetious part - hence the smiley. I never claimed to be a better driver, just that the sim is not exactly realistic. Driving in heavy traffic is like form flying - I grant that. I can understand banning driving distractions in urban areas where heavy traffic is the norm. But does...

Excellent coverage: David Rhode's 7 months with the Taliban (as a hostage): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/asia/18hostage.html?_r=1&hp And Dexter Filkin's profile of Gen. McChrystal (it's where my signature quote comes from)...

So when I'm in civvies driving to dinner, am I on "official business"? Can I get reimbursed for that? My interpretation of it is, if it's official business, then I should be in a gov-V or reimbursed - i.e. out to Pace RDO or as duty driver. Which ironically means my upcoming PCS will probably be...

I had a terrible case on Fam1&2, it went away after I got meds to acclimate, and I didn't have any trouble through the rest of Primary, including PA's. Though I did get a little green in the back seat of a form solo observer. I haven't had any problems in the HT's, including the NVD sim where...

I can't take credit for it, but I thought I'd share: Beats the Marinegouge down EP posted nearby.

You're barking up the wrong tree. Consumers have a limited number of weight on the market because self-purchased policies account for only about 9%, while the bulk of the market is the 60% covered employee-purchased plans, as a consequence of a 1950's tax exemption on employee-purchased plans...

What tops it off is that it's a video response.....to two actual USAFA cadets dancing to that song.

The guy is building a machine that produces more power than it uses. We have a real winner here.

Iiiinteresting family: http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/10/15/missing-balloon-boy-falcon-heene-was-in-wife-swap-family/ They're on a fine line between "that's cool" and "that's nuts"

The problem is, we're confusing health insurance with health care and expecting insurance to cover or discount regular or affordable care. Insurance is for catastrophic costs. It'd be like using your auto insurance to pay for oil changes or your property insurance to pay for exterminators. A...